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Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Today’s video… and the rest of the Countdown… is going to be a little different from what I anticipated… But it’s not going to end! Hear what I’m talking about in today’s video on @ClassicHorrorsTV: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!
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Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Remember, when we designate films before 1931 as horror, we are doing it retroactively. Before Frankenstein, horror was an ambiguous emotion or element, not a marketing category. Instead, at the time, these movies were referred to as, fantastic, mysterious, or weird. They relied on atmospheric terror and…
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Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Many consider the first horror film to be the 1896 French short by Georges Melies, The House of the Devil, aka The Haunted Castle.) In its three-minute running time, Mephistopheles conjures a variety of supernatural characters from a magic cauldron. It features skeletons, ghosts, bats, and the…
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Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. The genre trap is dangerous. If we rely too much on labels, instead of the movies themselves, we’re either going to be misled into watching something we don’t like, or worse, not watch something we’d love. For someone like me who’s obsessed with placing everything into compartments…
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It’s April Fool’s day at Slaughter High (1986) and Carol (the 35-year-old, but still lovely, student, Caroline Munro) leads poor Marty (Simon Scuddamore) into the locker room for a cruel prank that turns bad. Later that day in the science lab, Chekov’s beaker full of nitric acid wobbles on a shelf and Marty uses a…




